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Curing earworms with anagrams

An earworm is the name for a song that gets stuck in your head, that you may find yourself – against your will – humming and singing for days.

In yet another marvelous convergence of science and music researchers at Western Washington University claim you can rid yourself of an earworm by solvinganagrams* (that is, rearranging the letters of a word or phrase to form another word or phrase). And if that doesn’t work you can just read a book.